Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-18
Saturday, June rs, 1887.
WHAT THE SOUTH HAS DONE.


WHAT THE SOUTH HAS DONE.
B. f.. Ward, of Winona, Miss,
answers an article In the Century"
concerning southern progress as fol.
lows:
The south has been the land Of ZEN
terprises of great pith and moment"
rather than the nursery Of scribblers.
She has made history for others to
write and sell.
For more than 100 years the grand
march of the American intellect has
been projected from southern brains.
The fine moral and intellectual Or
ganization of southern children has
heretofore been largely Due to the fact
that their mothers weie exempt from
the hardships of physical drudgery
and the depressing effects of impend.
ing want.
A southern man led the patriotic
armies TO victory and established the
possibilities of the proudest nation on
the earth. A southern man was prime
mover Of the convention that formed
the constitution. When the govern
ment was created its organic laws
were still IN unexplained book. q pom
derous oar In unskilled hands.
It was left for the greatest legal
mind of the age. a southern chief JUS
tice, to anaIyze and stamp upon it the
construction which will be accepted
as long as the constitution IL respected.
A southern maf framed the ord.
nance for the organization and govern
ment of the great northwestern terri
tory, an instrument second In import.
nee only to the constitution Of the
United States.
A southern man was the author Of
the Republican theory of popular gov
eminent. which prevailed during the
sixty years Of our greatest prosperity,
peace and prosperity. or the fifteen
Presidents of the Continental Congress
eight were from slave states.
Where is there an example of mod.
ern seamsnship that will compare
with the daring and brilliant cruise of
Admiral Semmes, who with q single
ship swept from the seas the commerce
of a great nation ? Who was IL that
mapped the geography Of the seas, ex-
planned their secret phenomena. blazed
out on the trackless ocean the shortest
and safest highways for the commerce
of the world, by his "Wind and Cur
rent Charts" and his Sailing Direc-
tions," saving to the United States
millions of dollars annually on outgo-
ing tonnage alone? Matthew F.
Maury, q southern man to the core,
and by common consent Of all nations
accorded the proud title of "Philoso-
pher of the Seas"
Where Is there a parallel to Audi
bon, the naturalist and ornothologist
of the world? Chloroform. that has
robbed the surgeons knife of all Its
terrors, was first applied by a southern
physician.
The two greatest eras In surgery for
the last two centuries, In fact two of
the greatest In surgical history, were
marked by two southern physicians.
Ephraim Mcdowell. of Kentucky, and
j. Marion Sims, of Alabama. In their
respective branches the surgery of the
whole enlighted world recognizes and
follows the leadership Of those famous
men.
Ben Hill was the only man in Amer
lea who ever made 81, 600 900 as the d.
rect product Of his brain, independent
Of investment or speculation; In addi-
tion TO which he gave fifteen Of his
best years to active public service.
The only approximation to his REQ
ord was that Of another southern law
yer, Judah p. Benjamin, who went to
England after the meridian of life and
became the leading jurist In that land
OF great lawyers.
From 1899 to 1858, a period of "a
years, embracing eleven administer
lions, the slave states furnished eight
Presidents, whose terms OF service GOV.
cred So years. During the same time
the free states furnished three Presi-
dents, whose combined terms covered
~ years.
OF the IL vice presidents. 4 were
from slave states.
Under these eleven Administrations
the slave states supplied fourteen sec
rstaries Of state, ii secretaries OF war,
9 secretaries of the treasury, o secre'
tsriss Of the navy and 8 postmaster
generals.
0f@ PresIdsnts pro tenn. Of the Sen'
ate 80 we're from slave states.